Vacant job

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, youth, and the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future professions that both challenge and develop you, and you work with what is truly important. Together, we make Gävle safer!

The Open Care Unit for children and families consists of 2 family treatment groups, the Family House and the Children’s Group, with a total of 24 employees, including 2 treatment coordinators and a unit manager. The unit's target group primarily consists of families with children up to 12 years old, but sometimes also teenagers. The Children’s Group is now looking for a new family therapist.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good approach, a strong ability to collaborate, and prioritize high quality in your work. Our unit is HBTQI-certified and actively works with an inclusive approach based on discrimination grounds. We place great importance on personal suitability.

For this position, a criminal record extract from the police is required. This will ONLY be requested from the final candidate in the last step of the recruitment process.

We are currently facing exciting challenges due to the implementation of the new social services law. Do you want to contribute? We warmly welcome your application!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for someone who wants to be part of an engaged team where we work together to develop and strengthen parenting skills for those who need it most. We work with treatment assignments in complex situations with families that often have extensive support needs. All work is carried out on behalf of social workers based on set goals, which are regularly followed up. We often work together with a colleague and also seek help from the workgroup and treatment coordinators in our work with families.

Ongoing and clear documentation is an important part of the work to describe and show change or barriers to change. As a family therapist, you are responsible for keeping records and making analyses and assessments of the process that go hand in hand with the goals we have been assigned to work towards together with the family. We strive for participation and openness with families and have ongoing dialogue about how we perceive the family’s development.

We work with family relationships and behavior patterns to ensure that children and youth have a good home environment and living conditions in the long term. Our work is based on a relational foundation with a systemic approach where we see the whole picture around the families we work with. We look at the interaction between the individual and the family system to identify what may underlie what is not working, and then work towards achieving change. To achieve this, we sometimes use methods such as the Safety Circle, Child-Oriented Family Therapy, or Safer Children.

Great importance is placed on involving families and their networks in the change process. We see cross-sector collaboration with other actors as a success factor in helping families achieve lasting change and in preventing and/or avoiding placements.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with experience in family treatment work within the framework of the Social Services Act, as well as knowledge of systemic approaches, network work, and attachment. Experience in authority work with children and youth is an advantage, as well as knowledge of the operational system Treserva and the working models Signs of Safety and BBIC.

The position requires a degree in social work, or a higher education/university degree with a pedagogical focus or other education that the employer deems relevant for the position. The position requires you to have a B driver's license and driving experience. You also need to have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, as well as a good ability to use a computer and phone in your work.

To succeed and thrive in this position, you are a person who can take initiative in social contexts. You are good at creating dialogue and trusting relationships. You enjoy collaborating and have an unpretentious attitude towards others. You are a secure and courageous person who can separate issues from individuals. You communicate clearly and trustworthily and adapt your behavior and language to the situation.

Your working style is characterized by planning and organizing your work well. You have the ability to see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use our resources in the best way to achieve results. You easily adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach when needed. You are someone who sees opportunities in change!

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle Municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it may be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request that media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar contacts refrain from reaching out.